Three months ago, July 15, I started publishing my applicable election guide. I started with a scene in my backyard where On a sunny afternoon there was an election urn. She later became a protagonist of many pictures in various scenery, from a football field to a tram stop. She became the trademark of all my election texts
On the day of the vote, I went on an election journey to the neighboring constituency this morning. This afternoon I visited all the polling stations in my municipality. Mainly to take any pictures, but besides to feel the atmosphere of choices in which we rebuild normality. In the last committee, I found my urn, a photomodel. I sat side by side on the bench for a fewer minutes and admired how dignified she looked in the mediate of the room, filled with ballot cards. She was in the right place, and thousands of specified urns filled to pieces became 1 of the symbols of our victory.
Starting to compose mine practical election guide I had an outline of things in my head that I truly request to describe, but any of the topics were born in the last 2 months. The aim of this series of articles was to give voters an insight into how the electoral strategy works in Poland and how these principles can be utilized in practice. I wanted to make certain that after the election there was no more whining that “all by d’Hondt”. I was convinced that people could be persuaded to elective tourism in the name of equalizing the odds of opposition. I wanted everyone to vote according to their own beliefs, but not to waste their voice. I tried to give readers the basis to vote based on knowledge, not on electoral emotions. too presenting the principles of our electoral system, I was very keen to affect people in the electoral run and supporting candidates from further electoral lists. At the time of the elections, my individual slogan was "Let's not watch what politicians will do, elections are our individual responsibility." I concluded the first article of the book.
On Citizens.news articles Practical Election Guide read over 30,000 people, by far the most read part of the second “Where our voice will have the top influence on the outcome” on the inequality of voice. I put forward arguments in favour of considering voting in another constituency. I would now compose that in order for the votes obtained to translate into more mandates for the opposition, we request to engage in "electoral tourism", but 2 months ago this word did not have the clear meaning that it has today.
So that this epilogue of the guide besides has a applicable dimension, not only a memorial one, I would like to finish, as I started, asking to compose any things on the card. In the first part of the article, I asked you to make a decision and compose it on a card, "do I want to proceed the regulation of the Law and Justice." It was expected to be a kind of vaccine for an election campaign, a mention point that each of us thought of ruling based on the experience of the last 8 years, not influenced by the electoral emotions of the fresh days of the campaign.
Now a week after the election it is worth to compose down any sentences about these elections, to read before the next vote. I wrote the following things on mine:
- for which I voted in the elections to the Sejm and the Senate,
- which was my main motivation for this choice,
- what is the most crucial area of life for me in Poland, where I want to see changes and why I wanted these changes, I chose this candidate / candidate and the group he represents.
All right, well, let's not just systematically and excluding emotions. I besides wrote on my card what I was doing and how I felt on October 15, 2023 at 9:00 p.m. erstwhile the first election results were announced.
Just before 9:00 p.m., I entered an election place in 1 of the schools in Sulejówek. Not to vote, but to be in a place where so many people voted in the name of equality of vote. I saw a large crowd of people determined to take part in these historical elections. Very tired members of the election committee, whom I sincerely felt sorry for, knowing that after a hard day's work, they had a long night of counting votes. Then, after nine, I had a small chat with people leaving the polling station, asking why they chose to vote in Sulejówek.
At the end I went for a short walk on Paderewskiego Street next to the park, where the Piłsudski Museum is located. It was most likely 21.45, empty around me. I was so relieved that it was over. We won this election! This is the large individual merit of any individual who took part.
